He has to back out of the way to keep from being stabbed in his chest, I don't think it's too much force.

He didn't even know he got stabbed.

It looked like she was being stabbed.

He was bleeding between his arm pit and chest.

He recognized there was a pattern on the altar cloth -- left in blood by what was the weapon that stabbed her, which was a letter opener.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!